Previewing An Image In A Browser; Saving Optimized Images - Adobe PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS Manual

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Optimizing Images for the Web
To preview an animation in the Save For Web
dialog box:
Do one of the following:
Click the Next Frame button ( ) to view the
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next frame in the animation.
Click the Previous Frame button ( ) to view the
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previous frame in the animation.
Click the Last Frame button (
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frame in the animation.
Click the First Frame button (
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first frame in the animation.
To preview an animation in a Web browser:
Choose a browser from the Preview pop-up
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menu, or click the browser icon to launch your
default Web browser.
Use the browser's Stop and Reload commands
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to stop or replay the animation.
Opening animated GIFs
You can open an existing animated GIF in
Photoshop Elements using the Open command.
The file is opened as a stack of layers. Each layer
corresponds to one frame. If you want to view a
specific frame in the document window, make the
layer for that frame visible in the Layers palette and
hide all the other layers in the Layers palette.
Opening existing animated GIF files in Photoshop
Elements is useful primarily for applying optimi-
zation settings to the files. The one-layer-per-
frame structure of imported animated GIF files
may make it impractical to edit animation frames
in other ways.
Previewing an image in a
browser
You can preview an optimized image in any
browser installed on your system. The browser
displays the image with a caption listing the
image's file type, pixel dimensions, file size, and
compression specifications in the first paragraph,
and filename and other HTML information in the
) to view the last
second paragraph.
) to view the
To preview an optimized image in a browser:
In the Save For Web dialog box, choose a browser
from the Preview In pop-up menu, or click the
browser icon to launch your default Web browser.
To add a browser to the Preview pop-up menu:
Create a shortcut (windows) or an alias (Mac
1
OS) for the browser you want to add to the menu.
Drag the icon for the shortcut or alias into the
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Preview In folder, located in the Helpers folder in
the Photoshop Elements program folder.
Restart Photoshop Elements.
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Saving optimized images

You must save an optimized image before you can
use it on the Web.
To save an optimized image:
Apply optimization settings in the Save For Web
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dialog box, and click OK. (See "Optimizing
images" on page 230.)
Type a filename, and choose a location for the
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resulting file or files.